Apparatus for arranging and delivering bolts or the like



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APPARATUS FOR ARRANGING AND DELIVERING BOLTS OR THE LIKE Filed Dec. 15, 1945 8 Sheets-Sheet 8 T T i l 1 A ios T T T INVENTOR. Char/es l2 Over/y HIS ATTORNEYS Patented Mar. 27, 1951 APPARATUS FOR ARRANGING AND DELIVERING BOLTS OR THE LIKE Charles D. Overly, Pittsburgh, Pa., assignor to Oliver Iron and Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application December 13, 1945, Serial No. 634,848

3 Claims. (cum-165) v. This inventionrelates to apparatus for con-v veying bolts or like articles from a point at which they are stored in random positions, to a machine. for subjecting them to further processing. Particularly, it concerns apparatus for repeatedly picking up small quantities of bolts, arranging them side-by-side in vertically suspended relation, and conveying them to a magazine from which they may be fed successively to a processing machine.

"In the manufacture of bolts or the like, it is necessary, after the preliminary operations of heading and cutting the shanks to length, to deliver the semi-finished product to machines for further processing, such as pointing and threading. While mechanisms for performing these operations have been known heretofore, they are open to certain objections because of their complexity of construction, difliculty of maintenance cating with the slot and adapted to deliver the,

bolts to a processing machine. The receiving trough slopes upwardly toward its discharge end and is provided with pusher means for advancing successive bolts. The pusher means is arranged to release bolts which have not become properly positioned so they may slide back down .the trough and become properly positioned before being fed forward again.

I-provide novel control means on the magazine whereby operation of the apparatus is stopped when'a predetermined quantity of bolts hasaccumulated therein. In order to reduce the frequency of starting and stopping, I also provide means for restarting the apparatus only when the quantity of bolts in the magazine has been reduced to a predetermined minimum. In addition, I provide means for detecting bolts having shanks of excessive length and stopping the machine for subsequent processing in order to protect it from damage thereby.

Various Other novel features and advantages of the apparatus of my invention will become apparent during the following detailed description thereof which refers to the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred embodiment In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus as a whole;

Figure 2 is an end elevation thereof; Figure 3 is a vertical central section throug the storage hopper;

Figure 4 is a partial plan view showing the receiving trough;

Figure 5 is a partial section through the trough taken substantially along the plane of line V-V of Figure 4; 7

Figure 6 is an elevation of the lower end of the receiving trough with end plate removed taken along the plane of line VIVI of Figure 5;

Figure 7 is a partial plan view of the magazine;

Figure 8 is a partial side elevation to enlarged scale showing the upper end of the magazine;

Figure 9 is a similar view showing some of the parts in alternate positions;

Figure 10 is a partial section taken along the plane of line X-X of Figure 9 showing a feeler, finger adapted to engage the bolts in the magazine;

Figure 11 is a partial section taken along the plane of line XI-XI of Figure 8;

Figure 12 is a transverse section through the magazine taken along the plane of line XII-XII of Figure 11;

Figure 13 is a plan view showing the details of the feeler finger;

Figure 14 is a partial side elevation to enlarged scale showing the lower end of the magazine;

Figure 15 is a partial section taken along the plane of line XVXV of Figure 14;

Figure 16 is a plan view showing the details of a switch-actuating lever; and I Figure 17 is a diagram showing the control circuits.

Referring in detail to the drawings and, for the v present, to Figures 1 through 3, the apparatus of my invention is adapted to gather. bolts from a storage receptacle and deliver them in alinement and in orderly succession to the mechanism indicated at M for further processing, such as pointing, threading, etc. The bolts to be arranged anddelivered are dumped into a storage hopper l0 after the bar stock from which they are made has been cut to the proper length of shank and headed. An elevator ll raises the bolts in small groups from the hopper NJ and delivers them to a receiving trough 12 which is inclined. upwardly toward its discharge end. .A magazine l3 inclined downwardly toward the reason of the sloping bottom, that it maybe designed to accommodate almost any desired quantity of bolts, thus reducing the frequency of reloading.

The elevator ll includes a guide channel having sides 20 and a bottom 2| which is a con tinuation of the end wall [6 of the hopper i0. Spaced conveyor chains 22 having flights or lifts 23 spaced therealong are adapted to ride in the gllid ci'lailnel f the elevator l l. 'Ih chains are trained over drive sprockets 24 at the upper end of the conveyor and idler rockets 25 at the lower end. The sprockets 24 are secured to a shaft 26 journaled in bearings 2! mounted on columns 28. The shaft 26 is driven by a variable speed motor-reducer 29 also secured to the columns 28, through a chain-and-s'procket drive 30. This drive includes a sprocket 29a on the shaft of the motor-reducer, a sprocket 3! on the shaft 26 and the chain therebetween which travels over a guide sprocket 32 carried on one or the columns 28. The chains 22 travel over imilar guide sprockets 32a journaled oh brackets 33 secured to the bottom or the channel or the elevator II. The sprockets 25 are mounted on a shaft 34 journaledih brackets 35. These brackets are secured to the framework or the hopper it. A

As shown in Fi ure 3, the chains 22 with their flights 23 travel upwardly through the hole l9 in the bottom M of the hopper ID and along the end Wall l6 thieOi. Bolts dumped heltf-kelter into the hopper will thus be picked up by the flights in small groups and carried upwardly along the conveyor channel. In order to revent the bolts in the hopper ID from falling through the hole I9 in the interval between th passafge of successive fiight's,.I provide a closure 36. The closure may conveniently be in the form of a casting extending across the width of the elevator and having arms at each end thereof. By means of thesearms, the closure is pivoted on a shaft 31 supported in lugs 38 depending from the sides of the hopper The closure has a sloping face adjacent the end wall I 6 of the hopper which is provided with a renewable wear plate 39 adapted to be engaged by the edges or the flights 23 as they start on theirupward travel. The closure 36 is thus pushed to one side by each succeeding flight to permit the latter to pass through the hol It. Between the passages or successive flights through the hole, the closure is maintained in the illustrated position by or tension Spring 40 pivotally cohhectedto an extension from one or the arms of the closure and to the sup orting frame of the hopper.

the opposite sides of the box and define the slot 45. The trough is tilted upwardly toward the discharge end and the bolts delivered thereto by the elevator H are moved upwardly along the rail 46 after falling down along the sloping bottom walls of the box 44 The bolts carried by the flights 23 are distributed along the length thereof, i. e., across the width of the elevator.

.They are thus distributed longitudinally of the and an idler sprocket 49 at the lower end. The

chain has pusher fingers 50 spaced therealohe adapted to enter the slot 45. The sprocket 481s driven by a constant speed motor=reducer 5!.

The sprocket is secured to a shaft in Z. Thebear= ihgs are supported on a bracket 44 carried by a column 55. The sprocket 49 is mounted on a shaft 56 journaled in bearings 57. These bear ings are carried on brackets extending downward= Striker fingers 41 are spaced across the chah hel'of the elevator ll, being mounted on flexible sprin s 42 secured to across iherhber 43. These fingers serve to brush off any excess or bolts carfied by the several flights. 7

i The receiving trough l2 as shown in Figure's i through 6 comprises a box 44 having spaced bottom walls, sloping toward a slot 45 extending 'cehtrally therealong. Guide rails 46 are secured to ly from the box 44 which is itself secured to the columns 28. n p

The upper run of the chain 41 travels alon a guide rail 58. This rail is positioned below the rails 46 but is not precisely parallel thereto. As hown in Figure 5, the rail 58 diverges upwardly rroih the rails 46. At the lower ends or the rails 4t, the fingers to protect upwardly through the slot 45. At that point, therefore, they tend to push upwardly along the rails all the bolts in front of them whether properly positioned with their shanks in the slots 45 or not. As the finger's travel up the rails 46, their upper ends asslime successivel lower positions relative thereto, thus permittin all t e bolts which have not been properly positioned t lide down the rails uhtil en aged by a succeeding finger, In this way, proper positioning of all the bolts reaching the upper end of the rails 46 is practically assured. A series of monitor fingers 59 are mounted on flexible springs fill secured toa bracket 61 extending above the rails 46. These lingers aid in 'dislod'ging any improperly positioned bolts causing them to slide down the trough for a-further opportunity tostraighten out so their shanks will fall into the slot 45. the cooperation of the receiving trough, the guide rails, the pusher fingers and the monitor fingers, the boltsreaching the crest of the rails 46 are arranged in groups, each group being advanced by one of the fingers 5 El with the bolts in side-by-side engagement. he bolts are thus delivered to the magazine '13, the rails 46 of the trough being continuous with similar rails extending along the magatine and designated 62 Referring n w to Figures 1 and 7' through "16.- the rails 62 of the magazine are supported on a casting or carri d on a bracket 65 s cured to the column to. A hold-down bar so is positioned above the upper portions or the rails 62 being pivoted at or to a bar to adjustable vertically in slotted uprights 69. Similarly, a hold-down bar In is positioned above the lower portions of the rails t2. This bar'ir'ioliides a fixed portion (to 'a'djli'stably secured to uprights ii and 72. The bar 10, has offset portion no intermediate its finger I! (see Figures 8 through 13).

ends. A supplemental bar 12a is hinged to the bar I and lies in alinement with the end portions of the bar It! opposite the offset portion 1 la. These hold-down bars prevent the bolts from pushing up from between the rails. The hinged mounting of the bars facilitates the clearing of any jamming of the bolts at any point along the rails. The bolts normally slide down the rails 62 by gravity as they are pushed over the crest of the rails at by the fingers 50.

The bolts are fed successively from the lower end of the magazine I3 to the processing mechanism M. Ordinarily, the bolts will be backed up for a predetermined distance at the lower portion of the magazine as shown in Figure 14. It will occasionally happen, however, that the bolts will pile up farther back in the magazine as a result of stoppage of the mechanism M. In order to avoid jamming, I provide means for stopping the motor-reducers 29 and 5i when the bolts pile up to a predetermined height in the magazine.

A bell crank I3 pivoted on the bracket 65 is normally urged in the counterclockwise direction by a tension spring I4. The shorter arm 13a of the crank has a roller journaled on the end thereof adapted to engage a cam E5 on shaft 52. Rotation of the cam with the shaft obviously causes oscillatory movement of the bell crank when the high portion of the cam engages the roller on the arm 13a of the crank.

The longer arm 13b of the crank is connected by a link I6 including universal joints to a feeler The finger is pivoted on a pin I8 extending through a slot II! in a slide block 88. The block is secured to one of the rails 62 by screws 8| and is slotted to receive the feeler finger. The rail 62 is also slotted as at 82 to permit the point of the feeler finger to engage bolts piling up in the magazine, as shown in Figure 11. A friction plate 83 rests on the head 18a of the pin I8 and is urged thereagainst by springs 84, carried by studs 85 threaded into tapped holes in the block 80. Because of the friction of the plate 83 on the head 18a of pin 12. movement of the link I6 toward the right first causes the feeler finger 11 to move from the solid-line position to the chainline position of Figure 11. Thereafter, the feeler finger slides in the slot through the block 88, the movement of the pin being guided by the slots I9. On reverse movement of the link I6, the feeler finger will first be shifted angularly on the pin I8 from the chain-line position to the solid-line position shown in Figure 11. Thereafter, the feeler finger will slide to the left unless it is prevented from doing so by engagement with a bolt as in Figure 10. Ordinarily, therefore, when the bolts have not piled up in the magazine to an excessive degree, the feeler finger will merely reciprocate and oscillate at the end of each reciprocation.

If the bolts have piled up to the height of the feeler finger, leftward movement thereof will be prevented, as shown in Figure 10. As a result, the bell crank I3 will be arrested in the position shown in Figure 9, with its roller out of contact with the cam. Under these conditions, a lever 85 pivoted on the arm 13a of the bell crank will be tilted, causing operation of a limit switch 8?.

The lever 86 is urged in a counterclockwise direction by tension spring 86a but, so long as the bell crank 13 oscillates through its full angle, a roller on the upper end of the lever 86, by engagement with the cam I5, prevents angular movement of the lever. When the crank I3 is stopped in the position shown in Figure 9, however, the pivot center of the lever 86 has a position such that continued rotation of the cam permits the lever to swing, thereby engaging the actuating arm 81a of the switch 81. The operation of this switch causes the motor-reducers 29 and 5] to stop. The means whereby this stoppage is accomplished will be explained in greater detail by reference to Figure 17.

A second limit switch 88 (see Figure 15) positioned near the lower end of the magazine controls the re-sta-rting of the motor-reducers. The operating arm 88a of the switch is engaged by a lever 89 pivoted to one of the rails 62. This lever is forced outwardly to the solid-line position of Figure 15 when bolts are piled up to the height of the lever, as shown in the drawings. the bolts have been fed downwardly along the magazine to a point below the lever 89, it moves to the chain-line position to effect re-starting of the motor-reducers in a manner to be explained in greater detail later. Both the switches 81 and 88 are normally closed, that is, their contacts are closed until their actuating arms are operated. This causes the switches to'open.

A third switch 9!] mounted on an angle 9| depending from the magazine, controls the motor of the mechanism M serving to stop it when actuated. The actuating arm 90a of the switch is operated by a pendulum 92 pivoted on an arm 93 secured to the angle 9|. A finger 94 rigid with the shaft of the pendulum 92 extends to a point below the path of the lower ends of the bolt shanks descending along the magazine as shown in Figure 14. If any of the bolts has a shank of excessive length, as indicated in chain lines at 95, it will by engagement with the finger 94 swing the pendulum 92 causing it to strike the actuating arm 90a of switch 98. In order to permit the motor of the mechanism M to be re-started, it is necessary to remove the over-length bolt from the magazine so that the switch 913 can reclose. This is done manually by throwing up the hinged portion of the hold-down bar 10.

is supplied from a line 91 through a transformer 98. The transformer also energizes a control bus, a portion of which is shown at 99. The panel 9t includes a starting relay I00 for motor 29a.

The motor 5Ia of motor reducer Si is energized directly from a supply line Ifll by operation of a contactor I02 having an operating coil lIlZc. Starting of the motors 29a and Ella is accomplished by a push-button switch I I13.

When the apparatus is being started up initially or after a previous operation during which all the bolts delivered to the magazine have been removed therefrom, the limit switches 3'! and 83 will both be closed since, as above stated, they are of the normally closed type, i. e., their contacts are in engagement except when their actuating levers are operated. This bein the case, operation of the push-button switch I03 completes a circuit from the right-hand side of the control bus 99 through the push-button switch I03, switches 8! and 88 and the operating coil IBZc of contactor I02, to the left-hand side of the control bus. A parallel circuit is also completed through the push button and limit switches to the operating coil IIiIlc of relay I69. The operation of contactor IIlZ- starts motor 5Ia and the When operation :xOf relay H10 star-ts motor 2.911. The panel 9.6 ;also..has ,arrelay tiled which controls con-- tents 10.02. The above operation also closes a contact illlle which establishes a holding circuit iorathecoil H120 in parallel with the switch 88 so that opening :of the latter will not stop the motor 51a.

Operationof the motor 23a causes the elevator H to-oarry bolts :from thestorage hopper .Ill up-to the receiving trough I2. Operation of the motor 51a causes the conveyor chain 4'! and pusher fingers-.50 to feed bolts upwardly along the trough and into :the magazine. As the :bolts slide down the trails 52 of :the magazine and into the era-- trance iQf the mechanism M, they engage the lever '89 and swing it outwardly as shown in Eigure lBcausing :it to engage the actuating arm 8.8 ato open switch .88.. This has no effect on the operation of the motors .at this time, however,

since the circuit for the coil H320 is maintained throughrcontact Hweof relay IOU.

,I-Lduringcontinued operation of the apparatus, the removal of bolts from the lower end of the magazineisslowed down or stopped as by a shutdown of the mechanism M bolts pile up in the magazine .to point such that reciprocation of the feeler finger i! is prevented as shown in Figure 10, thus causing operation of the actuating arm S'Iaof the switch 87 as already explained. Opening of the contacts of switch 8'! vdeenergizes both the .coil Hlflc of relay mo and the coil I020 of the contactor I02. Motors 29a and 55a, .of course, are stopped by the opening .of the contacts of relay 100 and contactor I62. stoppage .of the motors prevents further bolts from being lifted from the storage hopper by the elevator and delivered to the receiving trough I2.

The ;motors are re.-started automatically when the operation of mechanism M has been resumed and continued longenough to cause the last bolt in the:.magazine to desoendalong the rails 62 past the lever 89. It will be particularly noted that the motors .are not re-started when the last 'bolt in the magazine clears the feeler finger'lhsince this might result in frequent starting and ,stopping of the motors. As shown in.Figure,l7., closing of the switch 81 which occurs when the last bolt in the magazine passes beyond the .feeler finger does not operate either the relay 1.00 or the contactor Hi2 because the switch '88 is still held :open by the bolts accumulated in the magazine. When the last bolt in the magazinepasses the lever 89 theswitch 8.8 isreclosed whereupon the previously described starting operations take place, assuming that the :push button switch 103 remains closed. The motors 29a and 55a may, of course, be stopped at any time by opening the push-button switch. The motors are preferably provided with speed-co-ntrolzmeans indicateddiagrammatically at 964 whereby the rate of delivering bolts to the magazine maybe correlated with the rate at which they are processed in .the

--mechanism. M.

Figure 1'? also illustrates the control circuit ,for the motorcf the mechanism M. This motor indioa-ted at .i has a starting panel 155 including a relay '58s], ihe operating .coil idle of this relay isconnected to a control bus 85 through a push-button switch itS and the switchfifi which is normally closed. Thus the motor 1.95 can be started by operating the pushebutton switch 108. Opening of the SW'iDCh'QQ by an over-length bolt, of course, interrupts the circuit for the .coil iil'lc, deenergizing the relay and stopping the .motor Hi5. .Motor 165 w ill remain stQPPed .until the over-{length 'bolt is removed and push button switch +08 is manually plosed. Removal of the oyer-length bolt is ziiacilitated by the mounting of bar 12a.

'It will be apparent .fromthe foregoing descrip: tion that "the invention .is characterized by .1111. merous advantages over bolt-delivering devices known heretofore. The apparatus @handle any form .of bolt-like members having heads larger than their shanks, whether the heads and shanks are cylindrical or :of other shape. .FI-he apparatus :a-utomtica'lly controls th reed .of bolts by stopping the elevator and the trough conveyor when the .magazine is filled to a predetermined, height. Re -startin g is prevented until the magazine has been emptied to a predetermined level, thus eliminating frequent startingand stopping.

The elevator delivers :small groups of bolts suce. cessivel-y to the receiving trough :and in scattered relationr'a-long-the length thereof. This per-:- mits the trough conveyor to arrange the "bolts in the bottom slot thereof without jamminger .piling up. The trough conveyor and the magazine slot may 'be easily adjusted to accommodate various size of bolt shanks and bolt heads. The .de-. sired rate of feed may be obtained by controlling the speed er the motor driving the elevator. automatically operated gate the bottom of the storage :hopper permits -.easy ent y :of the con veyor flights while preventing bolts from falling through the Qpeningrbetweenflights.

The motion of the automatically operated .gate also serves to agitate the mass of belts in the hopper, thus aiding the bolts in their gravitation toward the elevator flights. Continuity of feedis not affected by the size of the storage hopper, .nor the quantity of bolts in the hopper. It has already been mentioned that .the hopper is adapted t be designed .tor a large capacity so that it need be filled only relatively infrequently.

The provision .for descent of the conveyor trough :pusher bars into the slot of the trough as they progress therealongcauses the bolts near the lower end of the trough to be agitated .and, together with the monitor :fingers, .causes any bolts which have been carried up out of proper position to be released .for downward slidingin the trough .un-til properly positioned with their shanks-in the-slot.

it will be understood that a limited number of bolts are .normally maintained in the magazine and thatthe supply of bolts therein is replenished periodically as bolts are removed from the lower end by the processing mechanism. .At the same time, any accumulation .of excess bolts in the magazine stops theentire feeding-operation. The over-length detector protects the processing mechanismfrom-damage which might result from the feeding thereto or a bolt having a length greater than that for which the mechanism, is set.

Although I have illustrated and described buta preferred embodimentof the invention, it willbe recognized that changes in the details .of -,C0nstruction disclosed may be made without departure from the spirit of the invention or the scopeof the .appendedclaims.

Iclaim:

1. Apparatus iorfeeding bolts-orthelike mprising a magazine including. sloping uide rails down which the bolts slide, a conveyor ideliver ing bolts in order to themagazine, a motor gdli-Vf: ing said conveyor, a switch for controllinglihe pera-tionof saidrmotor, said switch being opened y :means actuated by .an accumulation of bolts adjacent the upper end of the magazine, said switch being closed when the bolts pass through the upper end portion of the magazine, a second switch for controllin the operation of said motor, said second switch being opened by means actuated by the presence of bolts adjacent the lower end of the magazine, said second switch being closed when no bolts are in the guide rails in the lower portion of the magazine, and an electrical circuit including said switches connected in series with each other and said motor whereby an accumulation of bolts adjacent the upper end of the magazine opens the first switch and stops the motor, and whereby the removal of bolts from the magazine closes both said switches and starts the motor.

2. Apparatus for feeding bolts or the like comprising a magazine including sloping guide rails down which the bolts slide, a conveyor delivering bolts in order to the magazine, an electric controller for starting and stopping said conveyor, actuating means for the controller including a member movable into the space between the rails and adapted to be arrested by the piling up of bolts in the magazine to a predetermined height, said member actuating the controller to stop the conveyor when movement of the member is arrested and permitting the controller to start the conveyor when the member moves into the space between the rails, a second electric controller below said first-mentioned controller and held open by the bolts descending in the magazine past said second controller, said controllers forming part of an electric circuit whereby actuation of 10 the first controller tending to start the conveyor Will not be effective until the bolts in the magazine have passed the second controller and closed the second controller.

3. Apparatus for feeding bolts or the like as described in claim 2 in which the apparatus also includes an elevator delivering individual quantities of bolts to the conveyor, and in which the electric controller start and stop said elevator.

CHARLES D. OVERLY.

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